Right now as you read this, somewhere a rookie NBA player is lugging a veteran’s bags around a hotel. Possibly while wearing a pink Hello Kitty backpack.

Jalen Rose is becoming the NBA’s best alumni story teller, breaking down some walls and telling us what really goes on with things like rookie hazing. So here is Rose talking to Grantland about the hazing that goes on around a team and how Dikembe Mutombo used to call him up at all hours when he had an “adult situation.”